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GLOVE.

.NO. 548,541. Piatented 06a. 22, 18 95.

diff 11% k UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS HEAFIELD, OF BATH, ENGLAND.

GLOVEE SPEOIFiGATION forming part of Letters iatent No. 548,541, dated dctober 22, 1895.

A plication filed August 27, 1894. Serial No. 521,401. CNo model.) Patented in England November 22, 1893, No. 22,410.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Faanors HEAFIELD, glove manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 34 Milsom Street, Bath, in the county of Somerset, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gloves, (for which I have obtained a patentin Great Britain, No. 22,410, bearing date No vember 22, 1893,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object improvements in gloves, more especially such as are used for riding or driving, to permit of a better grip or hold on the reins being obtained, but is also applicable to gloves used for other purposes wherever it is desirable that parts of the outer surface of the gloves should be roughened.

The improvements consist in a glove having its fingers provided with ribs on the inner faces thereof and extending down onto the palm of the glove out of the leather or material itself of which these parts of the glove are formed. These said ribs, plaits, or pipings may be straight, oblique, zigzag, transverse, or formed into any design. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows separately one of the side pieces of one of the fingers. Fig.2 is a front elevation of the glove. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the projecting rib, drawn to an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a view of the thumb with transverse projecting ribs. Parts of the views Figs. 1 and 3 are broken off for want of space.

There are preferably two ribs (marked a, Fig. 2) on the front of the thumb b and of the first three fingers c and on the side pieces of the first three fingers, as in Fig. 1. If desired, the ribs a on the thumb I) might be formed transversely, as shown at Fig. 4, instead of lengthwise, as shown in Fig. 2.

The parts of the glove on which the projecting ribs a are to be made are cut wider than usual, and the ribs a. are made by doubling over the material and then forming a line of stitchings, as in Fig. 3, close to and parallel with the fold, so that when the material is again straightened or unfolded there is a rib projecting out from its surface.

When the required ribs have been formed on the parts of the glove, the parts are sewed together in the usual way.

In case of Tilburyed gloves-that is, where one part of the thumb and part of the palm and palm part of the fingers are made of two thicknesses of material-the projecting ribs,

plaits, or pipings would be formed of any design on the outer material.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A glove, as an article of manufacture, having its fingers provided with ribs on the inner faces thereof and extending down onto the palm of the glove.

FRANCIS HEAFIELD.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK J OHN Torn, FRED B. CLIP. 

